Lunch (not provided)

2.00pm - 3.20pm - Session 3

Julian Harris (King’s College London)

'Ta'abiriya / “expressionism" in Arab Music: Composition in the Iraqi School of Oud'

Baha Yetkin (Independent)

'Ottoman-Turkish Makam-based Improvisation on the Turkish-Style Oud'

3.20-3.50pm - Tea/Coffee

3.50-5.10pm - Session 4

John O’Connell (Cardiff University)

'Turan: Turkic Myth as Turkish Music'

Erum Naqvi (Pratt Institute)

'Gigging Classical in Iran'

5.20-6.20pm - Concert

The SOAS Middle East Ensemble

The SOAS Middle Eastern Ensemble is a group of SOAS students and alumni specialising in classical and folk Arabic music performance. The group has performed in several SOAS festivals and events as well as a recent performance at the British Museum. The ensemble is directed by Syrian Kanun player Maya Youssef.

For more information on this event, please contact Rachel Harris: rh@soas.ac.uk

The Middle East and Central Asia Music forum has been running since 2007 and is open to researchers, students and anyone interested in the music and culture of the region. In the spirit of fostering dialogue and interdisciplinarity, we hope that the issues discussed at the forum will be of interest to a broad audience, including musicologists, ethnomusicologists and other researchers in the arts, humanities and social sciences. In addition, we welcome those working on other aspects of Middle Eastern and Central Asian culture broadly speaking (dance, visual arts, media, film, literature, etc.)

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